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A review by amotisse
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
3.0
Dryly rich and richly dry like the land it describes.
The naivety and foolishness of men.
By the end, there was a numbing effect.
It was sadder and bleaker than I expected, though I guess the times might have predicted that, the 1930's.
How can science help?
Especially if you don't know the land well enough.
Sad realities of farmers hard hit with intolerable weather conditions and looming war.
How many fronts must they fight on?
Today, wars continue and economy takes its toll.
Perhaps we understand the land a little better, but we are still paying the price of our know all attitudes and experimentation.
In what is already a harsh country with extreme landscapes, the climatic unpredictability is even more rife with climate change taking over the world.
This story was simple and easy to read. Simple in it's rawness.
Country life is still hard for some.
What is easier or more complicated now, I'm not sure.
Being a farmers wife in the 30's must have been tough...no doubt still is, yet easier than it once was I hope.
I feel the writing reflected the dryness of the landscapes.
It didn't need to be elaborate and overly descriptive to create strong visuals-which it did.
It is unfortunate that the downward spiral dug in so firmly.
I didn't expect failure and helplessness to encompass them so completely, which I guess explains the sensation of numbness.
The naivety and foolishness of men.
By the end, there was a numbing effect.
It was sadder and bleaker than I expected, though I guess the times might have predicted that, the 1930's.
How can science help?
Especially if you don't know the land well enough.
Sad realities of farmers hard hit with intolerable weather conditions and looming war.
How many fronts must they fight on?
Today, wars continue and economy takes its toll.
Perhaps we understand the land a little better, but we are still paying the price of our know all attitudes and experimentation.
In what is already a harsh country with extreme landscapes, the climatic unpredictability is even more rife with climate change taking over the world.
This story was simple and easy to read. Simple in it's rawness.
Country life is still hard for some.
What is easier or more complicated now, I'm not sure.
Being a farmers wife in the 30's must have been tough...no doubt still is, yet easier than it once was I hope.
I feel the writing reflected the dryness of the landscapes.
It didn't need to be elaborate and overly descriptive to create strong visuals-which it did.
It is unfortunate that the downward spiral dug in so firmly.
I didn't expect failure and helplessness to encompass them so completely, which I guess explains the sensation of numbness.